Evans

"All through that summer of 1974, there was a Shakespearean plot developing around this triangle of outsized personalities. Neither Charlie nor Yablans/Evans ever knew that I was surreptitiously talking to Andy Tobias. When I heard from Andy how vicious Yablans was in characterizing Bluhdorn, my motivation was to do as much as I could to make certain Charlie wouldn’t be unfairly or negatively portrayed. Hard going given the delectable tidbits Yablans was throwing out. Andy told me Charlie wouldn’t agree to be interviewed, so it was up to me to be his defender. It never once occurred to me that I was helping to open a door I would soon be walking through. And, anyway, I was awfully busy just trying to save my ABC schedule from disaster."

"Broadcasters had, at that time, a sense of responsibility for what they did, and were, to a degree, programming in the public interest. Guardrails of any kind didn’t seem to exist in the movie business. For all Yablans’s bluster he was a master at distribution and marketing. And Evans was far from a slouch at running the production side. He had great theatrical instincts, and he made pictures better because of his intense involvement. The problem was, their enormous successes were done and gone."